Suns are the biggest threat to the Lakers repeating

dans1230 · Post #41 » by **dans1230** » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:02 pm

Id love to see the Suns in the playoffs again, but if they do itll be on the bottom half of the seedings. Den, LAC, Por, Utah, and Dal are better teams than them.

Soulyss · Post #42 » by **Soulyss** » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:19 pm

GSP wrote:Clips are well known frauds. They cant handle teams with legit bigs. They got lucky Kp got hurt and then sonned by Jokic. Denver didnt even have Barton and Harris was coming back from injury

Mavs could be interesting but i think theyre too flawed on defense.

It would be the Nuggets again but losing Jerami Grant was big. He was their best option on Bron and Ad. They have no one to check either now

Portland is better this season but theyre too easy to stop in the playoffs as weve seen time and time again

Utah is solid but you just arent going anywhere if Rudy Gobert is your best player

Warriors

Phoenix has Cp3 whos a game changer on both ends. Booker is trying on defense and is a top 10 scorer in the league maybe a top 10 offensive player in general. Ayton is potentially a generational big that can compete with Ad physically/athletically. Bridges is becoming one of the premier young talents among twoway players. His defense is SICKENING and hes developing on offense. Crowder is arguably a top 5 role player in the league. Him at the 4 when you have the length of Ayton and Bridges at the 3 is hard to beat

One of the better benches in the league too maybe not top 5 but close enough. Cam Johnson, Saric, Kaminsky can all play and give depth from 3-5. Moore is a really solid player. Cam Payne is a good backup Pg these days. Carter is like Pat Bev 0.5

this team is DANGEROUS

How many finals trips has CP3 made? I know he has a ton of rings... er.... wait...

PHX is likely a 7-8 seed and part of the play-in.

kenwood3333 · Post #43 » by **kenwood3333** » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:21 pm

Biggest threat is LeBron's health.

GSP · Post #44 » by **GSP** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:32 am

5-1

only loss a 1 possession game @ Sac and they blew them out in the rematch

just won b2b @ Utah and @ Denver one of if not the hardest b2b road games in the league

keep sleeping yall

SunsLyf3 · Post #45 » by **SunsLyf3** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:36 am

dans1230 wrote:Id love to see the Suns in the playoffs again, but if they do itll be on the bottom half of the seedings. Den, LAC, Por, Utah, and Dal are better teams than them.

Beat Den, Utah and Dallas already but sure. And yes the season is young but they legit shut them down.

SunsLyf3 · Post #46 » by **SunsLyf3** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:37 am

Soulyss wrote:
GSP wrote:Clips are well known frauds. They cant handle teams with legit bigs. They got lucky Kp got hurt and then sonned by Jokic. Denver didnt even have Barton and Harris was coming back from injury

Mavs could be interesting but i think theyre too flawed on defense.

It would be the Nuggets again but losing Jerami Grant was big. He was their best option on Bron and Ad. They have no one to check either now

Portland is better this season but theyre too easy to stop in the playoffs as weve seen time and time again

Utah is solid but you just arent going anywhere if Rudy Gobert is your best player

Warriors

Phoenix has Cp3 whos a game changer on both ends. Booker is trying on defense and is a top 10 scorer in the league maybe a top 10 offensive player in general. Ayton is potentially a generational big that can compete with Ad physically/athletically. Bridges is becoming one of the premier young talents among twoway players. His defense is SICKENING and hes developing on offense. Crowder is arguably a top 5 role player in the league. Him at the 4 when you have the length of Ayton and Bridges at the 3 is hard to beat

One of the better benches in the league too maybe not top 5 but close enough. Cam Johnson, Saric, Kaminsky can all play and give depth from 3-5. Moore is a really solid player. Cam Payne is a good backup Pg these days. Carter is like Pat Bev 0.5

this team is DANGEROUS

How many finals trips has CP3 made? I know he has a ton of rings... er.... wait...

PHX is likely a 7-8 seed and part of the play-in.

This is also the deepest most balanced team he's been in ever.

John Murdoch · Post #47 » by **John Murdoch** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:38 am

Who defends AD? Ill wait

Post #48 » by **magee** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:39 am

This Suns team, even playing at a slower pace, is fun to watch. They're gonna be a tough out. They might be a sneaky trade buyer at the deadline, but it will be interesting to see who they try to acquire to fill out their bench for the playoffs.

GSP · Post #49 » by **GSP** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:40 am

John Murdoch wrote:Who defends AD? Ill wait

Who in the Nba can defend Ad? Even Giannis and Bam cant. Rudy gets routinely torched

Really no one so that point is irrelevant

NoZoLakers · Post #50 » by **NoZoLakers** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:41 am

Another pre-mature overreaction hot take

papajoe · Post #51 » by **papajoe** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:42 am

Ayton's a far better defender than casual's would admit anyway. Can physically hold his own with AD. Funny thing about suns is Booker hasn't even played well for me and they're 5-1.

He's loading still.

Bobbcats · Post #52 » by **Bobbcats** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:42 am

Suns continuing to impress, I think they are also really trying to force Ayton's improvement too.

Only negative is Booker is a turnover machine so far though.

Onlytimewilltel · Post #53 » by **Onlytimewilltel** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:48 am

GSP wrote:
John Murdoch wrote:Who defends AD? Ill wait

Who in the Nba can defend Ad? Even Giannis and Bam cant. Rudy gets routinely torched

Really no one so that point is irrelevant

Agreed. It’s like asking “who defends Harden”. No one can, buy that doesn’t automatically mean the rockets will win it all either. Lots of talented megastars can’t be defended one on one and their teams don’t always win.

grumpysaddle · Post #54 » by **grumpysaddle** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:54 am

GSP wrote:5-1

only loss a 1 possession game @ Sac and they blew them out in the rematch

just won b2b @ Utah and @ Denver one of if not the hardest b2b road games in the league

keep sleeping yall

Suns would have won that Sac game if they had Kaminsky available instead of having to play Damian Jones. Jones is THAT bad.

grumpysaddle · Post #55 » by **grumpysaddle** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:55 am

Bobbcats wrote:Suns continuing to impress, I think they are also really trying to force Ayton's improvement too.

Only negative is Booker is a turnover machine so far though.

And that won't be the case with Booker all season. He's been REALLY bad so far. He'll figure it out, he's too talented not to.

mademan · Post #56 » by **mademan** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 4:58 am

Suns should try to get on the opposite bracket of the Lakers. They can make the WCF

xb3at band1tx · Post #57 » by **xb3at band1tx** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 5:00 am

This happens every year where a young team or a nobody team goes on a run out the gate.

I remember the magic a couple of years ago were 10-0 and people were freaking out. I do think the suns are a playoff team (or have the make up of one) but I gotta see it 15-25 games in

Dr Aki · Post #58 » by **Dr Aki** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 5:01 am

Quick, someone put up the Grim Reaper meme

bstein14 · Post #59 » by **bstein14** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 5:02 am

If the Suns finish TOP 2 in the West Paul should get MVP. Paul showed how valuable he was to winning basketball last year yet somehow Westbrick has an MVP award and Paul doesn't. Paul is really one of the more underrated careers in the NBA. Look at how bad the Clippers were as soon as he was gone. Blake and Jordan weren't anything without him.

Paul is one of the best in the game at makes those around him better and he has an elite understanding of how to control the pace of the game.... when to push and when to slow it down.

xb3at band1tx · Post #60 » by **xb3at band1tx** » Sat Jan 2, 2021 5:03 am

papajoe wrote:Ayton's a far better defender than casual's would admit anyway. Can physically hold his own with AD. Funny thing about suns is Booker hasn't even played well for me and they're 5-1.

He's loading still.

Davis would destroy him.

AD isn't just some bang in bang out guy, he shoots 3's now and is just everywhere on the court when he wants to be.

Only guy I've seen give Davis trouble is Embiid, but we haven't seen them play against one another in a good minute.